Jimmy Scott quotes

Jimmy Scott quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me.”
-- Jimmy Scott

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“There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might've wanted to select to do. But that's the style of my voice. There's nothing I can do about the heighth of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it.”
-- Jimmy Scott

Source : "'Fresh Air' Remembers Jazz Singer Jimmy Scott". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 16, 2014.

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“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
“Freedom is never given; it is won.”

Source : Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.
“No man has ever loved a woman as much as I love you. Nothing will ever come before you. I donâ€™t know what else I have to do to prove to you that I wonâ€™t let you down again. I wonâ€™t hurt you. You donâ€™t have to be alone anymore. I need you.”
“Okay. If you want to do this thing with Marcus then fine. Iâ€™ll take it and deal with it. But when he hurts you. When he lets you down, Iâ€™ll be here. My arms are always open for you to run into. I want you happy and if you think this ***** will make you happy then fine. You need to live a little too. I canâ€™t protect you from everything, but I can be here to hold you when he breaks your heart.”
“Itâ€™s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.”
“May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
“The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers
“But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts”
“I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.”
“To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.”

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